Kunde (pronounced: kün-dey, spelled: ཀུན་བདེ།) Institute, a center for Tibetan wellness and healing, was founded by Doctor Yangdron Kalzang in 2004. The name “Kunde” was given to the center by her root teacher, Kenpo Troru Tsenam Rinpoche, one of the most highly respected scholars of traditional Tibetan Medicine in Tibet. In Tibetan, “Kunde” means “may all beings be healthy, wealthy and happy.” Dedicated to the mission of benefiting all people with affordable, integrative health services, Kunde offers a variety of traditional Tibetan and Asian medical modalities. Offices are located in Daly City and Berkeley.
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Kunchok Gyaltsen, Menpa, MIIM., MPH., Ph.D.
Dr. Kunchok Gyaltsen is one of today’s new generation of outstanding traditional Tibetan medical doctors. Having spent his life gaining expertise in both the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and in Tibetan Medicine, his proficiency in clinical mind-body healing practices, Public Health, his many public teachings and scholarly writings on traditional Tibetan medical approaches, combined with over 30 years of training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, offer exceptional and rare resources of knowledge for ways to keep body, mind, and spirit healthy from birth to death. Currently, Dr. Gyaltsen holds positions of Professor at Tso-Ngon (Qinghai) University Tibetan Medical College, Mingyu Presidents and Tibetan Medical Doctors of Tso-Ngon Provincial and Kumbum Monastery Tibetan Medical Hospitals, Senior Advisor of Arura Tibetan Medical Group, and Medicine Visiting Professor of Medicine at School of Medicine, University of Virginia. He wrote and published 22 scholarly Tibetan Medicine books and over 50 scientific and general papers in Tibetan, Chinese and English. |